Sylvia's Scenario

Boy, I feel old now.  After listening to John Keister  stand-up comedy show last night, Living and Dying in Seattle , so many memories have returned from the days of his local hit show Almost Live! from 1984 to 1999 that was about all things Seattle.  The show was so good that back then we would video tape it on our VCR and save them.  They were classics.  Like the sketches of the Californians all moving up to Seattle, Dick's Hamburgers turned into "Dudes"; the espresso babies needing their espresso fixes; Arthur Denny and Seattle's founding fathers pulling up onto Alki beach for the first time and hear that familiar sound of the steamed milk, SSSHHHHHH, with an Indian behind the espresso machine;  The High-Fivin' White Guys, who Keister referred to last night as saying he never thought he'd be spending the rest of his life giving people high-fives; the Ballard Driving School and how much Ballard has changed now.  He recalled the show's...

It's been twice in two months so I'm thinking this could be a regular blog post; visiting a favorite restaurant because it's the last time before it closes forever, or in other words,  Vanishing Seattle.   I understand I was gone for 17 years but to tell you the truth, so much that I remember growing up here is still around.  Many things may be different, like the name of the Coliseum is now Key Arena, but the things that make Seattle unique and the things I love are basically the same; the Space Needle, the Seattle Center, Nordstrom, the Public Market (or Pike Place Market-the official name), Green Lake, Magnuson Park, the Ballard Locks, the Montlake Cut, Opening Day of Boating and crew races, the Daffodil and Tulip Festival at La Connor, Mariner baseball, Seafair, the Seafair pirates and Seafair parades, hydroplanes and the Blue Angels, the Underground Tour, the Smith Tower, Mt. Rainier, riding a ferry or watching them go back and forth across the Soun...